Sentence examples for for a layoff from inspiring English sources

Maybe you were on your boss's bad side and were the first to get picked for a layoff.

There would be no such happy ending this time, and the legitimate question now — with Serena having not played in seven months and Venus heading for a layoff — is whether either Williams will experience such Grand Slam elation again.

Reporters can check the date of Ranae Soptic's death and the details of her coverage, but there's no purely disinterested answer to the question of whether a businessman can be blamed for a layoff's human toll, any more than there was a purely factual answer to the question of whether it was racist to show Willie Horton's mug shot in 1988.

It can be depressing and frustrating as you search for a new job or wait for a layoff to end.

The majority were men and women searching unsuccessfully for jobs after a layoff or they were temporary workers unable to move to a next job, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.

Those guild employees are eligible for severance packages in a layoff, of two weeks' pay for every year of employment, with a cap of 52 weeks' pay.

I remember IBM — I don't think IBM had a layoff for 50 years.

Let's be overly generous and assume a layoff for every site closure, even though the final figure could be higher; initial leaks indicated up to 550 firings based on 300 site closures.

According to suit, Mrs. Rubenstein was told by executives in September that she was selected for a December layoff because there was no way to guarantee that she would ever return to work following her pregnancy leave.

A Beckettian dread pervades this witty first novel, a "layoff narrative" for our times.

Park has written what one of his characters calls "a layoff narrative" for our times.